Greenberg Traurig Adds Intellectual Property Team in West Palm Beach

Global law firm Greenberg Traurig, P.A. has added Michael K. Dixon and Roy P. Zachariah as shareholders in its West Palm Beach office, expanding the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology capabilities amid client demand fueled by an increase in corporate migration to Florida. Both attorneys join Greenberg Traurig from Akerman LLP, where they worked as a team in the West Palm office.

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Holland & Knight Strengthens Corporate Practice with Addition of M&A Partner Waajid Siddiqui in New York

Corporate and M&A attorney Waajid Siddiqui has joined Holland & Knight’s New York office as a partner. He focuses on upstream and downstream oil and gas transactions, as well as acquisitions and divestitures of lending and leasing platforms and portfolios of financial assets. Mr. Siddiqui was previously a partner with Shearman & Sterling.

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Gibson Dunn Adds Former Federal Trade Commission Chief of Staff Svetlana S. Gans as Partner in Washington, D.C., Bolstering Firm’s Consumer Protection, Privacy and Antitrust Practices

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP is pleased to announce that Svetlana S. Gans has joined the firm as a partner. Previously Vice President and Associate General Counsel at the NCTA – The Internet & Television Association and a former Chief of Staff for Acting Federal Trade Commission Chair Maureen K. Ohlhausen, Gans joins the Antitrust and Competition; Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation; and Public Policy Practice Groups at Gibson Dunn.

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Norton Rose Fulbright grows Minneapolis office with acclaimed 11-lawyer litigation team

Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright is expanding its Minneapolis office with 11 lawyers, including four partners, joining its Commercial Litigation and Products, Pharma, Medical and Mass Tort teams. These lawyers join from Blackwell Burke P.A., a boutique trial law firm recently honored as Benchmark Litigation’s “Minnesota Firm of the Year” for the sixth consecutive year. Joining Norton Rose Fulbright as partners are Jerry Alcazar, S. Jamal Faleel, Benjamin W. Hulse and Mary S. Young. Of counsel Corey L. Gordon, senior counsel Emily Ambrose, Andy Crowder and Charmaine K. Harris, senior associate Ted Hartman and associates Gene Hummel and Amarachi Ihejirika complete the group.

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